Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach,

Tara, Lowenthal. Hello my chickens, how are you? I am sitting on the floor in a podcast

booth that is made of moving blankets. I can't remember if I talked about this on the

last episode, but the new apartment, which I love, has really high ceilings, which is

amazing to live in and is terrible for a podcast. So I just want you all to know. Number

one, what I do because I love you. And also what I do because I don't want to make my

poor podcast producer cry. And number two, that it doesn't matter how glamorous my life

may sometimes seem. I'm in a this tiny thing made of moving blankets with my laptop and

my mic on like a step stool. And I am sitting on meditation cushion on the floor because

there's not enough room to have a chair in here. So that's what's happening. That's

what's happening. What else is happening? It is December when I'm recording this. And

also December when you're listening to this possibly, depending on when you listen to

it. And I gotta tell y'all, I have kept the energy up this year. And I am ready to rest.

I am tired. And you know, I have not been working in an ICU like I'm tired just from having

a normal human life. You know, not to speak of the things that people have gone through

this year. 2020 has been a year for kind of so many of us. And I think I'm hearing from

a lot of people what I'm feeling, which is this pull to rest more, right? For those of us

experiencing shorter and darker days right now, it's normal to want to rest more. Your

body is an animal, right? You won't wake up your cat to yell at her for being lazy because

she was sleeping. So I don't want you to do that to yourself if you're feeling like

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